skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don’t build your castle in a kingdom that somebody else controls

> I’ll encourage folks to drive those conversations to community-specific spaces (like Discourse, Discord, etc).

Who does the author think controls Discord?
The other factor is they're speaking to an industry that is accustomed to all discourse and even much of the actual innovation taking place in radically open spaces. We're far more hesitant to purchase books than other industries, so couple that with widespread resistance to the idea in the first place and it does seem like an odd choice of medium, and actually communicates a bit of a disconnect.

A book in the style of Crafting Interpreters would probably have been a better rhetorical tool—free to read online as a manifesto, with the option to purchase a hard copy.
For sure but I think people on the fine tuning/training/stable diffusion side are more concerned with that. They make a big fuss about this and basically talk people out of a perfectly good and well priced 16gb vram card that literally works out of the box with ollama, lmstudio for text inferencing.

Kind of one of the reasons AMD is a sleeper stock for me. If people only knew.
The crime aspect is always an interesting talking point. I see it a lot with folks saying things like "when I visited the US i had to wear my backpack backwards to avoid thieves". (a line like that got reposed several times on HN and reddit for a while, it was almost a meme at one point).

Living in the US, I never do that ... not worried about thieves. Somehow not robbed.

People see some articles or movies and they just assume every negative thing is an enormous / constant threat I think.
I think there's something wrong with a hiring process where it takes 1-2 months to decide whether to proceed to next step (screening call, or interview, or offer) with a candidate, not to mention the fact that a well qualified candidate isn't going to be waiting around that long - they'll be applying to other jobs at the same time, and if good will be snapped up.

The time to send the "Sorry, not continuing" email is as soon as the company has decided that, and if that really is 1-2 months later, you may as well have just ghosted the candidate.
Whatever embeddings and search history you make on your phone that is "generated locally" goes straight bak to apple by default.

They make it impractical for anyone to NOT use iCloud.

It's all reality distrotion field marketing bs.
I love email, so I rant about it
Microsoft implemented I/O rings in an update to Windows 10 with some differences and it is largely a copy-and-paste of io_uring.

It's important to note that the NT kernel was built to leverage async I/O throughout. It was part of the original design documents and not an after-thought.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioringap...

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...

https://windows-internals.com/ioring-vs-io_uring-a-compariso...

https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~zwang/files/cop4610/Fall2016/windows...
I think you underestimate Singapore. They put a lot of effort into not being just a trading hub.

Also, what's the point in loading and unloading in Iceland, when you're already fairly close to ports like Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg? I get that you could in theory ship around the pole, split your containers in Iceland and ship to the US and EU from there. It's just that unloading a container ship isn't that fast, and we're already shipping so much that the load could just be distributed across multiple ships with separate destinations.
You could say this for pretty much every important decision in every democracy ever. It's seldom things get settled with percentage support starting with anything other than a 5.
Ask HN: Can we (or at least Valve) stop using SMS for identity?
Can we as an industry stop treating phone numbers as immutable pieces of information? They're not, and there is no easy way to know all of the services that use a particular phone number if you change your number.

I had someone recover my Steam account using an old phone number. Receiving an SMS allowed them to change the email on the account, which prevents me from recovering my account.

I'm baffled that there seems to be a few lapses in their recovery flow:
- Steam will give your account away with via text message, even if the person has no prior knowledge of the account (username, display name, email, purchases/billing info, anything).
- Email is supposed to be used as the primary recovery mechanism ("protected by steam guard email")
- when you purchase games, you're asked for a ph# which is never checked against your registered number (an alert would have brought the mismatch to my attention)
- The phone number was verified 3361 days ago. Never a 'hey, is this info still up to date?' message or anything.

This essentially turned Steam's 2FA into 1FA. Or maybe even less, since they didn't even need a username to fully recover the account. Heck, they didn't know what account they were recovering!

This seems like a particularly egregious implementation of recovery, but really it seems to hinge on the idea that a phone number is some unalienable part of someone's identity.

SMS for identity seems like a good idea if you ignore the changing number case (people don't need to remember anything specific to your service!). However, the changing number case is obviously one to be addressed, and is non-trivial to get right. I've seen a myriad of implementations here, most of them bad or half-baked.
You'll be surprised how many people think they can just use first.lastname@gmail.com and have email magically appear in their account. And even more people have no idea what the @gmail.com/@ibm.com is about. All they know is that some of their emails don't reach their contacts, probably because "the computer broke again".

It's not a hard concept, but it's a concept that was only ever explained in school to a sliver of the population actually using email every day.

Plus, federation makes validating accounts real hard. Looking for a semi-popular Twitter user on Mastodon will bring forth 800 Twitter-to-Mastodon-bridges with plausible-looking domains, only for the real user to end up using something like "hachyderm" as their domain name. I don't know any good solutions to this problem, but that doesn't make the problem go away.
Also on Three's Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojeGRiGdhc.
Yeah, I know. But the headline is so egregiously anti-intellectual that it's embarrassing to see it in an academic context. And it's worse, because they're doing it to cater to their audience.

Then of course, they had to make it explicitly political, with the inclusion of this quote:

> Schekman, who calls Mullis’s Nobel a “complete fluke,” compares him to the man in the White House. “He’s the molecular biology equivalent of Donald Trump in terms of his personal behavior,” he says.

And they end the article with this line:

> Maybe the best way to remember Mullis and his invention of PCR is to make some space for the others who made it a reality.

It's just childishness. Whatever other bad things the man did, he really did invent PCR, which changed the world forever.
On the employer's dime though.
I've been using AI for 2 years for this. Why use this website?
Isn't that a lot more expensive?
I mean the obvious solution is a reasonable process for opening a B&B or inn in different areas of town.

The issue with short term rentals is that they are self-reinforcing on the upside, where large deltas in housing prices disincentivizes long term leases, which encourages more short term rentals, which raises housing prices by perpetuating the shortage.

I think people should be allowed to operate a B&B if they want to, but they should be in the business of operating a B&B, not of side income while waiting for an appreciating real estate asset to mature.

Housing should be used as housing, and when it has become traded as a HODL asset, the market is not serving the public.

The way to solve the solution is to legalize density. Scarcity business models collapse when the marginal return approaches the marginal cost of production.

Since that’s not happening, we ought to not let people just jump in and out of the short term rental business, because it is self-reinforcing on the way up and on the way down. I think it’s good policy to reduce bubble prone industries where possible because the downside risks are non-trivial to the community.
What? This car is the far opposite end of the spectrum from abysmal.
I think the bigger issue is hardware utilization. Meta and Qwen's medium sized models are fantastic and competitive with 6 month old offerings from OpenAI and Claude, but you need to have $2500 of hardware to run it. If you're going to be spinning this 24/7, sure the API costs for OpenAI and Anthropic would be insane, but as far as normal personal usage patterns go, you'd probably spend $20/month. So, either spend $2500 that will depreciate to $1000 in two years or $580 in API costs?
That's just usual xenophobic nonsense. Did those bad hombres turistos eat all the dogs in your town?
Try not projecting your own racism onto others.
Keychron keyboard was the only one I decided to return when I had this hobby (I bought maybe 4 or 5 total). I believe it was Q-series from about 2020/2021. It was either full or slightly smaller but did not work well with Linux, and was inexplicably missing ScrollLock button (which incidentally is a hotkey used to switch devices on my KVM). I mean, the button was there, but had a different function and I wasn't able to make it work.

Looks like the ones listed currently are compatible with Linux (still missing the ScrollLock though), just take your time to review before buying something that might not work with your setup.
That's a basic tenet of the free market, not of capitalism. The two are not the same.
Except your analogy does not hold because you can simply choose not to buy the product with the connector you don't like or can no longer afford as a result of socialism.

It appears much harder to opt out of said socialism without leaving the country though, so read that again with this pretext perhaps?
Oh I see.
I was wondering if that would make it possible to capture that json being sent
> Who does the author think controls Discord?

I think you misunderstand what sort of control they speak about. I think what they're getting at is "Who is doing the moderation?" rather than "Who is maintaining the servers?", so the community aspect instead of the technical details.

I think Discord let people do the moderation part pretty much however they want, compared to say Twitter where there is one moderation team that controls it all.

Bit similar to Reddit I suppose, although Reddit also have admins/site-wide moderators that clean up across subreddits, so not identical.

Still, seems weird to drive people from one castle to another castle, when instead you can drive them to your own website (like with Discourse). But I don't think that's what the author is talking about.
Installing and booting Linux absolutely implies consent to let it do what it does. It's open source, you can evaluate what it does before booting it. You know it's comprised of many processes, you know it has a networking stack, you connected it to a network. You can't then ask OMG why didn't it ask before sending something?

I agree that all-or-nothing is problematic but even with a flexible permission system the best you can hope for is for all the things apps do to be itemized and set to sane defaults. But even then sanity is subjective. For every person like you (and me fwiw) who values privacy there are 1000 people who will never find the settings, don't care about privacy, and will wonder why stuff isn't working.

Ultimately privacy is similar to security in that it comes down to trust. If you don't trust your OS you're screwed. Your choices are try to exert as much control over it as possible, or don't use it.
Wells Fargo, maybe.[1]

And we need Glass-Stegall back. Banks and brokerages should be separate. There is no good reason that Goldman Sachs should be a bank, other than for bailouts,
which is why they became a bank.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WFC/wells-fargo/to...
People will do anything other than the solution - remove zoning entirely. Build. The end.

Developers will not spend money building things that will not be successfully rented out, interests on this issue are already aligned. People whining about hypothetical ugly buildings or improper structures ignore reality in the USA.

The handwringing on affordable housing, short term rentals are just silly distractions.

More and more I’m reminded of “The Good Place”, where the main character goes to the (actual) Good Place and turns out no one goes there due to endless bickering…
Our area restrictions and homesteader tax exemptions. But there's plenty of places where "government regulations" aren't the order of the day. Also if an area is economically depressed, the government isn't going to engage in sweeping reforms if the owners are one or two property owner types. The government is planning on deporting 11 million people, so this could open up some housing vacancies.
https://archive.ph/RFJqu
"housing a human right" epitomises a feel good do nothing platitude that won't fix the problem.

Fixing the problem involves building more so supply isn't an issue and accepting tha tin some areas housing is unfortunately just going to be pricier. Wish economic literacy was more widespread :/
No. It’s almost all the time that your computer has more than one thing to do;

- your browser uses a process per tab
- your web server responds to multiple requests in parallel
- your web app is going to launch other programs
- your desktop ui is going to have a compositing server separate from each application
- your compiler is going to work on multiple source files
> There must be a clear intent to defraud the EU fund (defrauding others is not enough).

Saying defrauding others does not seem right to me. If you defraud a distributor of EU funds, that may have impacted EU funds; they would have a claim.

Do you have a source for your assertion?
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276017
i've used GCP GPU Cloud Run to build an on-demand/auto scaling livestream/HLS video translation --> subtitle generation pipeline with great success.

[edit: sorry, not inference, but a great cost-saver]
Zionists have been doing all of that to the indigenous Palestinians for over 75 years. History didn't start on Oct 7th, although the Israeli propaganda would love for people to believe that and never look into Nakba, the Balfour Declaration...
"Dignity for minimum wage" may be a more realistic tagline. It's not particularly good faith to say it's a detached house in Toronto.

We're sliding towards workhouses of the 1800s. Policy should lean towards a one bedroom apartment being achievable for all of the working class.
I edited that part cause irrelevant, but the counterpoint you make is irrelevant from a software engineering perspective.
Inferencing does not require Nvidia GPUs at all, and its almost criminal to be recommending dedicated GPUs with only 12GB of RAM.

Buy a MacMini or MacbookPro with RAM maxed out.

I just bought an M4 mac mini for exactly this use case that has 64GB for ~2k. You can get 128GB on the MBP for ~5k. These will run much larger (and more useful) models.

EDIT: Since the request was for < $1600, you can still get a 32GB mac mini for $1200 or 24GB for $800
this [load image] button is so respectful and considerate, such a pleasant surprise to find on a random website in 2024's internet
I believe this is how most existing pre-internet companies do business now. Hire consultants to build the product and let the contract expire. Employ a minimal staff to add new features and keep it running. Expect this to work for 20+ years, but repeat the process in 6. Since, as you note, we have no leverage, we should be happy to wade through all the table-scrap tech debt wrought by offshore consultants (and in the future -- AI) as a way to keep our dependents fed. Why should tech be treated differently by business than delivery drivers at this point? The market is flooded and the skills are no longer unique. The only leverage we have at this point is where we spend our money, but the markets are so consolidated now we can't pick somewhere to get a product that doesn't feed revenue into the company we chose not to buy from.
So, you're saying that from a EA perspective, it can in fact be okay to be a tobacco executive. QED.
While also crippling the home construction and renovation industries which are already extremely constrained on labor.

I am doubtful this will net out to positive change on housing supply, especially considering the size of families that recent migrants typically cohabitate with.
And this about BSD kqueue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540442
Great wiki link thanks for sharing.

Also commenting to reiterate that if one spends just a little time (with an open mind) in any of the camps (X/Mastodon/Bluesky, whatever) its just so obvious that while the messages differ, the behaviors are exactly the same.

In most contexts we prefer consensus - its just more energy efficient! Your brain is going to expend more energy critically listening and rewiring thoughts when new evidence is presented. Its hard even for the best of us.

Pillarisation from a modeling perspective is interesting. I wonder if that could be codified at a legal level, and then anyone running for public positions of power would be required to have their own media algorithms curated by the public.
> sheer number of snack brands owned by Nabisco

Also Yum and Roark, which, together, own much of fast food.
You can try out https://wiz.chat (my project) if you want to Run llama on your web browser. Still needs a GPU and the latest version of chrome but it's fast enough for my usage.
OP is a little ambiguous, but I think they're being sarcastic.
This is HN: there is a large class of users who do not see a distinction between "best" and "most extractive."
Poster accepts millions of people with their skin burned off just for a couple of square km in Eastern Ukraine. At this stage I feel that Ukrainians and Russian deserve each other. Please keep it an intra-slavic conflict!
To pick two items:

>His views on AIDS didn’t just look bad, they may have had deadly consequences. By the late 1990s, South Africa was in the midst of a catastrophic AIDS epidemic. President Thabo Mbeki, under the spell of AIDS denialists including Mullis, declared that AIDS was caused by poverty, not HIV. Many South Africans were denied access to treatment. A 2008 study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes estimated that as a result, 35,000 babies were born with HIV and 330,000 South Africans died of AIDS unnecessarily.

and

>At some point during their interview in his apartment, Mullis grabbed her by the neck and tried to forcibly kiss her. She rebuffed him. But he tried again. And again. He asked her, “How can you say you know me without sleeping with me?”
When was the most recent time you tried this, and for what level of role was it? I believe this could absolutely be effective pre-2023, or for very high level roles. I don't think it's currently viable advice for ~Senior level engineers, who are currently competing against thousands of other applications, many of whom were generated specifically for the given role.
parties and homeless people or an equitable housed community hmm
Maybe, but there is a lot of bad logic and fuzzy thinking blended into this article. Describing rents as "above-market rates" is one of the dead giveaways of a nonsense political/economic mental model.
and at one point the physically matching connectors with different pinouts meant Dell PSUs would fry regular motherboards or vice-versa.

I think it's more than "uncaring" - since they just shifted the pinout 3 pins over from standard ATX, got rid of the 3.3V and added another 2 5V lines: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=59959
It should list Simon Willison's https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/
> Did they try this on obscure bible excerpts, or just ones likely to be well known and quoted elsewhere?

the article contains examples of both
If short term letting is more profitable that necessarily implies it's the best use. Part of the issue seems to be that owners might accept lower profits from short term rentals to avoid the hassles of long term renting though (like a shitty tenant that becomes a nightmare)
Short term rentals are so popular because the operators aren’t in the business of operating a short term rental.

They are in the business of asset appreciation, and a short term rental is a twofer: you increase the housing shortage by removing a unit from the market, while maintaining an revenue stream to offset the cost of depreciation.

The business model is completely built on rent seeking and would collapse rapidly if it was just legal to let housing supply meet demand.

Instead, there are no voters in the jurisdiction to change the laws, because the vast majority of the electorate all gains from the rent seeking behavior.

The people who suffer are the minority who literally were not alive when the housing shortage began.
FMUL could only be issued every other cycle, which made scheduling even more annoying. Doing something like a matrix-vector multiplication was a messy game of FADD/FMUL/FXCH hot potato since for every operation one of the arguments had to be the top of the stack, so the TOS was constantly being replaced.

Compilers got pretty good at optimizing straight line math but were not as good at cases where variables needed to be kept in the stack during a loop, like a running sum. You had to get the order of exchanges just right to preserve stack order across loop iterations. The compilers at the time often had to spill to memory or use multiple FXCHs at the end of the loop.
Jimmy Carter has died
> You don't need to prove it: there's zero doubt.

You don't seem to understand the point, or the value, of proof. Ironically, this belies a poor understanding of the value of belief.

If you're going to assert "there's zero doubt", then you should have profound amounts of proof. But to couple that with "you don't need to prove it" exposes a very fragile worldview.

Doubt isn't the opposite of belief, but its opening act. If I believe something to be true, I can explain why. This requires proof and a state of humility. The strongest faith is forged in the fires of the deepest doubt.

If you aren't willing to entertain doubts or understand the value of proofs, why are you even on a hacker forum? Everything here is science, mathematics, and technology. Hacking requires a mix of curiosity, rigor, and imagination. It's not that any discussion outside the accepted consensus is unwelcome, but if you're going to engage in such a silly way, you shouldn't be surprised when things "[get] ugly".
Tauri rewrite when
Huh, it's not clear what you are suggesting. Who's "we" and who's not taking responsibility?

The best people were clearly not staying at Intel and they have been winning hard at AMD, Tesla, NVIDIA, Apple, Qualcomm, and TSMC, in case you have not been paying attention. They could not stop winning and getting ahead in the past 5-10 years, in fact. So much semiconductor innovation happened.

Yes, if you start promoting the wrong people, very quickly the best ones leave. No one likes to report to their stupid peer who just got promoted or the idiot they hire from the outside when there are more qualified people they could promote from within.

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And re marketing boxes, just check out where Intel chose to innovate:

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/15dx55m/which_i9_box...
That was a typo from a phone keyboard.
wait until you hear about payday loans...